Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space?

[Frank Miles]

On Tue, 05 Aug 2014 20:06:05 +0000, Frank Miles wrote:

> I need to evaluate a complicated function over a multidimensional space
> as part of an optimization problem.  This is a somewhat general problem
> in which the number of dimensions and the function being evaluated can
> vary from problem to problem.
> 
> I've got a working version (with loads of conditionals, and it only works
> to #dimensions <= 10), but I'd like something simpler and clearer and
> less hard-coded.
> 
> I've web-searched for some plausible method, but haven't found anything
> "nice".  Any recommendations where I should look, or what technique should
> be used?
> 
> TIA!

Ahhhh.... should have waited.  The answer: itertools.product!  very nice